B-Space mentor shares experience at EIT Health Top Female Founders Summer School

At the end of July, Kristaps Zaļais, mentor at the Rīga Stradiņs University (RSU) B-Space business incubator and lecturer at the RSU Faculty of Social Sciences visited the EIT Health Top Female Founders Summer School in Vienna. There, he shared his knowledge as a mentor with future leaders of the healthcare sector, to help find solutions to women’s challenges in healthcare and to implement ideas for the development of the sector. At the event, Kristaps Zaļais represented the EIT Health RIS Hub in Latvia.

International experience and networking are an important part of the development of RSU and the B-Space business incubator as it helps create new opportunities and more interesting activities of a higher quality for the incubator’s teams. After mentoring at the summer school, Zaļais is confident that representatives from RSU will participate at the event next year as well, presenting their problems and finding solutions in international teams.
 
The EIT Health Top Female Founders Summer School brings together students, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs from healthcare, engineering, business and other related sectors, and the school’s programme is based on the insights of women experienced in business. The Founders Summer School was created to address the barriers female entrepreneurs face and to learn how to identify healthcare needs, build a dynamic team and business model, and propose ideas for developing the sector.
 
The EIT Health Top Female Founders Summer School took place in Vienna, Austria, with a distance learning phase in June 2024 and face-to-face workshops on 15 - 19 July. The programme is organised by EIT Health, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV, the University of Coimbra, IESE Business School, Heidelberg University, RSU, INiTS, and BDO Healthcare.  
 
RSU is the Latvian hub of the healthcare knowledge and innovation community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Health).